Tom Bigelajzen
Notes on design, code, and the web — resurrected from the archives.
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Redesigning the blog
Hi there, I haven't updated this blog in a while and most of the stuff here is REALLY outdated. So today I'm starting to redesign it, using the Skeleton Theme by http://www.simplethemes.com/ Expect…
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Migrating Your WordPress MU installation to a New Domain
A guest post by Alon Peer Daniel Doezema offers a script that helps migrating WordPress to a new domain: http://dan.doezema.com/2010/04/wordpressdomainchange/. I've added Multi Site (MU) support to…
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Dalton Maag published a first trial of the Hebrew design
Dalton Maag (The company that designs the Ubuntu Font) published a first trial of the Hebrew design. It looks real nice, but there is still a lot of work. It's published on the Canonical Design Blog…
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Backing off from the font design for now
I started the Hebrew for the Ubuntu Font project with a lot of enthusiasm and got great support from the local community, but I lost my drive and I must back off from this project for the time being.…
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Dropbox support in Drupal's Backup and Migrate module
[](/assets/uploads/2010/09/Untitled1.gif)A guest post by Alon Pe'er Just like any good open source project or feature, it started with a personal wish of mine to see it implemented. The Backup and…
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Font Progress Update
[](/assets/uploads/2010/08/UbuntuFontHebv0.8.jpg)There was some progress made this week, especially with fine tuning the letters and revising those letters I'm not so sure about. The one letter I'm…
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Ubuntu Font Hebrew Subset now has an issue on Launchpad
[](/assets/uploads/2010/08/UbuntuFontHebv0.8.jpg)I opened an issue on launchpad and it was added to the Ubuntu Font Family Wishlist queue. As an added bonus Mark Shuttleworth himself gave his…
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Ubuntu Font, Last Update for the Weekend
Had a solid advance with the design this weekend, some more letters have been finalized (ג, ל, ת), others have better variants to choose from (צ, ש, ק). But I've got to a point where i need some more…
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Ubuntu Font Update
Just a quick update: I got some good tips from Maxim Ioresh (Creator of the Culmus Fonts Project) and had some insights of my own regarding some of the glyphs. I am much more confident now that the…
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Hebrew for the Ubuntu Font (UPDATED)
On October 10th Ubuntu will launch it's new version "Maverick Meerkat" and with it a new free and open source beautiful font simply called the Ubuntu Font. Many foreign glyphs, and specifically…
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Ubuntu Karmic Tip: Change Gnome Language Indicator to Flag Icons
There is a long time debate in the Gnome and Ubuntu community about the use of national flags as language indicators instead of country codes. The basic argument is that for many languages there are…
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Hi-res VLC Icons for download
J.B. Kempf uploaded highquality versions of the icons I made for the VideoLan Player to the Goodies section of the VideoLan site for everybody to download. Oh, and the "Day of the Cones" image too :)…
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Drupal.org.il New Design
Drupal.org.il, or Doil as we like to call it is the home for the Hebrew speaking Drupal CMS community developers and users. A couple of months ago my design concept for the site was selected by the…
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Mac OS X - Hebrerw/English keyboard layout switch with CapsLock
I bought myself a new MacBook Pro this week (So much fun!) and I wanted to have the same keyboard layout switch I had on my Ubuntu machine Using CapsLock, which is useless otherwise. After googeling…
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Tendu 2.x, Moving to Drupal
Yes! this site is still alive. I published the next version in the evolution of Tendu, my omnipotent Drupal theme. Many cool new features, easier to use and adopt and most importantly has some…
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VLC media player 0.9.2 Icons
VLC media player 0.9.2 was released this week, featuring some icons I made for "Preferences" pane and for the "No album art" image. A couple of years ago the VideoLan team had a redesign contest for…
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The site for Icon 2008 is up, based on "Tendu"
Icon is the Annual Israeli Science Fiction, Fantasy and RolePlaying Festival. I was part of the team who created the site, and the site is based on "Tendu". More accurate "Tendu" is the evolution of…
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My first Drupal theme is out.
I published a new Drupal theme called Tendu aimed at Multi language theme developers. Tendu is a clean and simple wireframe theme, it supports all the major browsers and most importantly, supports…
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Haven't written here in a long time
I guess I was hoping the database will miraculously mend itself... I should start rebuilding my portfolio again, just need to find the time to do it. It will be updated soon.
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Had a DB Crash...
Back on the air now, but I lost all the data that was stored on the DB users, my portfolio, etc. I'll have to find the time to do this all over again.